Santa Teresa Citizen Action Group Update -- March 12, 1999

How can we all follow all these issues? How can we be informed about the
major issues which face our community? How can we be good citizens with so
much going on, and also have a job, a life, a family?

Santa Teresa Citizen Action Group, a grassroots neighborhood organization
formed in 1998 to address Plaza de Santa Teresa issues, is now inviting
community participation to broaden our focus and begin to form committees to
look into the various issues facing our neighborhood. By pooling our time,
talent, and resources, we can more efficiently share knowledge about the
concerns which will accompany all these proposals. Working together, we can
all be informed and be able to act as good stewards for our community.

Our neighborhood (including Coyote) is the last great undeveloped area in San
Jose, really in the Bay Area. All eyes are focused on the development many
groups hope to pursue here.

Can we assume that all decisions will be good ones, leave it to others to
research and follow through, do what they want with our neighborhood? Can we
become informed about these issues which could greatly impact our homes, our
community, our finances, our health, our environment?

Working together, we can. More importantly, we should. Let's be proud of our
neighborhood, and what we leave to the next generation.

Interested? Plan to attend the 3/18 Community Meeting; we will hear reports
from all who pledged solutions for the Plaza de Santa Teresa issue.
Afterwards, we will begin preliminary plans for an ongoing citizens' group to
address major new issues as they develop in our community. Call Elizabeth
(365-8270), or email STAction for more info.

Be Informed. Be Involved. Be a citizen. These issues are too important to
ignore. We have scheduled April 15, 1999 (Tax Day) at the Santa Teresa High
School Gym to hear the first reports back from various committees. Plan to
attend.